Knight of the Bleeding Heart

The Bleeding Heart was one of the many semi-religious orders
instituted in the Middle Ages in honour of the Virgin Mary, whose
“heart was pierced with many sorrows.”

“When he was at Holyrood who would have said that the young,
sprightly George Douglas would have been content to play the locksman
here in Lochleven, with no gayer amusement than that of turning the key
on two or three helpless women? A strange office for a Knight of the
Bleeding Heart.” —SirW.Scott: The Abbot, xxiii.